Word: uprootedness
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The vast majority of us do not possess the intelligence, the imagination, or the spiritual courage to create for ourselves comprehensive ethical systems. We require guides. I believe that most modern college students, especially those of middle class background enrolled at prestige institutions, not only have little knowledge of past...
Relics of the destructive policies followed by the ousted regime of Premier Pol Pot are everywhere. Torn iron shutters lie twisted on sidewalks amidst festering heaps of garbage. In once elegant residential neighborhoods, most of the villas are now hollow hulks, festooned with uprooted eucalyptus trees and scarred by bullets...
Q: There were reports in the paper about two weeks ago that 6,000 coloured families are being uprooted to make way for "white rezoning."
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is expanding the Red Line, and has uprooted plenty of negative feelings along with the Cambridge mud.
Worst hit was Mobile, Ala. For four hours, Frederic pummeled the city with winds of up to 130 m.p.h. and tides 12 ft. above normal. The hurricane swept a freighter onto a pier in Mobile Bay and blew a DC-3 half a mile from a hangar to a road...